$370 Large Stack BBA Day 1ab | 2019 Potomac Poker Open

07-31-2019 20:35 UTC-5

Cutler vs Faro

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Jeff McMillan

Level 12 : 1,500/3,000, 3,000 ante

Two of the largest stacks in the room faced off in a pot when the board read .

Joseph Cutler bet and Tim Faro called. The river was the .

Cutler bet 65,000 and this time Faro would not call as he quickly pitched his cards into the muck.

Player	Chips	Progress
Tim Faro	830,000 129,000	129,000

Joe Cutler	480,000 160,000	160,000

Tags: Joseph Cutler Tim Faro

07-31-2019 20:30 UTC-5

Hand for Hand

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Jeff McMillan

Level 12 : 1,500/3,000, 3,000 ante

The money bubble has been reached with 25 players remaining and the floor has announced hand-for-hand play.

07-31-2019 20:24 UTC-5

Player	Chips	Progress
Ronnie Thomas	Busted

Player	Chips	Progress
Ake Ngamsaard	515,000

Shah Calls Thomas

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Jeff McMillan

Level 12 : 1,500/3,000, 3,000 ante

Ronnie Thomas and Kunal Shah were at the turn with the board reading .

Thomas bet 25,000 which was called by Shah. The river came the .

Thomas fired again, this time for a bet of 60,000. Shah called again.

Thomas sighed and turned over while Shah showed the winner to take more from Thomas's shrinking stack.

Player	Chips	Progress
Kunal Shah	390,000 135,000	135,000
Ronnie Thomas	250,000 100,000	100,000

Tags: Kunal Shah Ronnie Thomas

07-31-2019 19:47 UTC-5

Player	Chips	Progress
Ake Ngamsaard	515,000 515,000	515,000
David Israelite	485,000 358,000	358,000
Joe Cutler	320,000 35,000	35,000
Justin Arnwine	255,000 25,000	25,000
Kunal Shah	255,000 50,000	50,000
Scott Carpenter	240,000 185,000	185,000
Dennis Tsai	220,000 105,000	105,000
Al Mottur	210,000 150,000	150,000

Faro Forces Out Thomas in Colossal Pot

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Jeff McMillan

Level 12 : 1,500/3,000, 3,000 ante

Action was picked up on the turn with a board that read , a huge pot of nearly 400,000 was in the middle and Ronnie Thomas had a big decision on his hands as Tim Faro moved all in.

Thomas's tournament life was at stake with the decision as Avruch was one of the few stacks in the room that had him covered.

After about two minutes of thinking, Thomas folded, electing to leave himself with his remaining 350,000.

Player	Chips	Progress
Tim Faro	860,000 500,000	500,000
Ronnie Thomas	350,000 75,000	75,000

Tags: Robert Avruch Ronnie Thomas

07-31-2019 18:45 UTC-5

Shortened Dinner Break

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Jeff McMillan

Level 12 : 1,500/3,000, 3,000 ante

Players are now on a 45 minute dinner break. Action will resume at level 17.

07-31-2019 18:32 UTC-5

Chad Reynolds Wins 2019 PPO Event #4: $370 No-Limit Hold'em

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Jeff McMillan

Level 12 : 1,500/3,000, 3,000 ante

PokerNews is at the 2019 Potomac Poker Open (PPO) to offer live updates from three tournaments, but those are just a few of the 14 events playing out at MGM National Harbor.

Another was Event #4: $370 No-Limit Hold'em, a tournament that attracted 69 entries and generated a $20,700 prize pool. That was paid out to the final table with Chad Reynolds of Marinsburg, West Virginia coming out on top to win the title and accompanying $7,038 first-place prize.

It marked the fourth-largest score of Reynolds' career behind the $55,788 he won for finishing fifth in the 2014 Borgata Fall Poker Open Event #1: $550 NLH Deepstack, $19,142 for placing second in a 2014 WSOP Circuit $365 NLH event at Harrah's Cherokee, and $10,900 for a fifth-place finish in the 2014 Borgata Fall Poker Open Event #15: $1,090 NLH 6-Max.

2019 PPO Event #4 Final Table Results

Place	Player	Hometown	Prize
1st	Chad Reynolds	Marinsburg, WV	$7,038
2nd	Michael Robinson	Woodbridge, VA	$4,347
3rd	Johnathan Moschel	Owins Mills, MD	$2,898
4th	Han Oh	Catonis, MD	$1,863
5th	Scott Carpenter	Arlington, VA	$1,449
6th	Anthony Holbert	Sterling, VA	$1,242
7th	Jose Espinora	Alexandria, VA	$1,035
8th	Robert Gailer	Washington DC	$828

07-31-2019 18:15 UTC-5

Faro Takes Out Hoban

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Jeff McMillan

Level 12 : 1,500/3,000, 3,000 ante

The chips got all in the middle on the turn as the board read . Tim Faro held the while Frederick Hoban had . The river was the and Avruch took in all of Hoban's chips.